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Amid the ongoing economic gloom, marketers may feel they can establish a rapport with consumers by adopting a downbeat tone of their own. Last month’s AP-GfK poll by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications gives reason to suspect such an approach would put them out of sync with many people.

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